Martin Marietta New Bern Quarry [Yorktown Fm]: Pliocene, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Laevicardum sublineatum
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Secticarca lienosa
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Busycon sp.
Röding 1798
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fasciolaria elegans
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula marginata
Say 1824
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| synonym of Plicatula gibbosa | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Carolinapecten eboreus
(Conrad 1833)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Costaglycymeris subovata
(Say 1824)
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Glycymeris americana
(Defrance 1826)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mulinia congesta
(Conrad 1833)
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Hemimactra duplinensis
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Spisula modicella
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Mercenaria rileyi
(Conrad 1838)
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| recombined as Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Chesacardium acutilacqueatum
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Carditamera arata
(Conrad 1832)
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Craven |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 77.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 76.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yorktown | ||||
| Local section: | New Bern Quarry | Local bed: | F | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: See McLeod and Barnes (2008) for a discussion of the geology. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 151326 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-09-27 04:43:53 | Last modified: | 2014-08-21 11:52:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-09-27 04:43:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48009. | L. W. Ward. 2007. Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. Virginia Museum of Natural History Guidebook 4:1-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |